harness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from puristajs/harness. It costs 178 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository guidance for Claude-based coding agents and their subagents. A subagent is a smaller agent assigned a focused part of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents follow shared project instructions, parallelize suitable tasks, and keep final decisions with the main agent.
Why use it?
It clarifies when to split work between agents, which model level to use, and how agents should communicate decisions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is puristajs/harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on harness itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to puristajs/harness. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puristajs/harness/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/puristajs/harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00178 $0.00178
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.00089
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00018

Measured 7d ago against content hash e8b018d0639a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Claude Guidance

Follow AGENTS.md for shared repository and implementation guidance.

Subagents v1.0

Spawn subagents to isolate context, parallelize independent work, or offload bulk mechanical tasks. Don't spawn when the parent needs the reasoning, when synthesis requires holding things together, or when spawn overhead dominates.

Pick the cheapest model that can do the subtask well:

  • Haiku: bulk mechanical work, no judgment
  • Sonnet: scoped research, code exploration, in-scope synthesis
  • Opus: subtasks needing real planning or tradeoffs

If a subagent realizes it needs a higher tier than itself, return to the parent.

Parent owns final output and cross-spawn synthesis. User instructions override.

Claude-specific note: keep responses concise, cite the relevant spec or ticket when making implementation decisions, and avoid duplicating large spec content in chat.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 19 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A e8b018d0639a

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harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository puristajs/harness (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 178 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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